Friday, December 26, 2008

This blog would not be complete without the internet classic, Dogs in Elk.

I did call my vet. He laughed until he was gagging and breathless. He says a lot of things, which can be summed as *what did you expect?* and *no, there is no such thing as too much elk meat for a dog.*

Monday, December 22, 2008

BEIJING (Reuters) – A pig that survived 36 days buried in the rubble of May's massive Sichuan earthquake has been voted China's favorite animal, but the attention has made him fat, lazy and bad-tempered, state media said.

"It's gotten fatter and lazier by the day," it quoted staff as saying... And the pig is getting fed up with visitors, after initially being quite friendly.

"Now it just blocks the door to its bedroom when there are too many visitors outside. It's been increasingly difficult for us to convince it to open the door," the report said.

Animals. Why do we think they're so cute, so noble, so admirable? They eat poop, for Pete's sake. Some of them will bite your head off as soon as look at you. I've spent much of my life either slaving over caring for animals, or writing about how great they are. This blog is my revenge, and so is the Animals Behaving Badly book available at Amazon, BN, and many other fine local and online establishments.